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Major themes in HSTM
Historiography
Any HSTM option
Any HSTM option
Dissertation in HSTM
Semester 1 (Oct-Jan) Semester 2 (Jan-May) Vacation (May-Sep)
FULL-TIME
Major themes in
HSTM
Dissertation in HSTM
Semester 1
Any HSTM option
Any HSTM option
Semester 2 Semester 3 Semester 4 Vacation
PART-TIME
Vacation
Research skills
Historiog-raphy
Research skills
First year Second year
History of Science, Technology and Medicine pathway
• Shaping the Sciences: how disciplines form; building and keeping professional status; Big Science and the military-industrial-academic complex; science and diplomacy
• Making Modern Technology: grand technological projects and visions; invisible technologies and infrastructures; national and international agendas; warfare; information society
• Medicine, Science and Modernity: disease histories; healthcare institutions; medicine and the lab; chronic and acute illness; gender and authority; patient perspectives; global biomedicine
or, by arrangement:
• Science Communication units
• Humanities units from outside CHSTM
Option choices, HSTM semester 2/4
Some recent HSTM MSc dissertation titles• William Sargant and his role in 1950s psychiatry with a focus on
brainwashing techniques, the false confession and the abolition of the death penalty
• W(h)ither Big Science? Reflections on the death of the Superconducting Super Collider and the life of the Large Hadron Collider
• Stray dogs in the Victorian city• British medical education in the 20th century, centring around George
Pickering's survey and recommendations for change • Mill architecture and industrial heritage in Greater Manchester • Communication of different therapies for insomnia, both NHS-approved
and alternative, to women in popular sources in the last 20 years• Atorvastatin: its journey into and through the UK medical world• Radio and scientific careers in the early twentieth century in Britain• Educating on AIDS: Conceptual problems with school-based HIV
interventions in Kenya• The uses of stage drama in science public engagement work
Major themes in Med Hum
MH methods
Medicine, science and modernity
30 credits of option choice
Dissertation or creative
portfolio in Medical
Humanities
Semester 1 (Oct-Jan) Semester 2 (Jan-May) Vacation (May-Sep)
FULL-TIME
Major themes in
HSTM
Dissertation or creative portfolio
Semester 1
Medicine, science and modernity
30 credits of option
choice
Semester 2 Semester 3 Semester 4 Vacation
PART-TIME
Vacation
Research skills
Med Hum methods
Research skills
First year Second year
Medical humanities pathway
www.manchester.ac.uk/chstmjane.gregory@manchester.ac.uk
MSc Science Communication programme
Semester 1 Credit Semester 2(*contact hours organised in three one-day schools)
Credit(*students take 2 of 4 for credit)
Summer Credit
Major Themes in HSTM
30
Science Communication Research*
15* Dissertation or Portfolio
60
Research and Communication Skills
15
Science, Government and Policy*
15*
Introduction to Science Communication
15 Science, Media and Journalism*
15*
Museums and Events*
15*
Mentored Project
30
Total credits 60 60 60
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